Sicilia

See also: sicilià and Sicília

English

Etymology

From Latin Sicilia, from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, “Sicel”), the name of the Sicel people. Doublet of Sicily.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈsɪljə/

Proper noun

Sicilia (uncountable)

1. A province of the Roman Empire (consisting of the island of Sicily).

Galician

Proper noun

Sicilia

1. Sicily (The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)

Related terms

• siciliano

Interlingua

Proper noun

Sicilia

1. Sicily (The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Sicilia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siˈt͡ʃi.lja/
• Rhymes: -ilja
• Hyphenation: Si‧cì‧lia

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Sicilia f

1. Sicily (The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)

   Synonym: (obsolete) Trinacria

Derived terms

• siciliano
• siculo

Descendants

• → Albanian: Sicila
• → Japanese: シチリア
• → Korean: 시칠리아 (sichillia)
• → Ottoman Turkish: سچلیا
  • Turkish: Sicilya

See also

• (administrative regions of Italy) regioni d'Italia; Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardia, Marche, Molise, Piemonte, Puglia, Sardegna, Sicilia, Toscana, Trentino-Alto Adige, Umbria, Valle d'Aosta, Veneto ^{(Category: it:Administrative regions of Italy)}

Anagrams

• lisciai, sialici

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, “Sicel”), the name of the Sicel people.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /siˈki.li.a/, [s̠ɪˈkɪlʲiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /siˈt͡ʃi.li.a/, [siˈt͡ʃiːliä]

Proper noun

Sicilia f sg (genitive Siciliae); first declension

1. Sicily (The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Sicilia
genitive	Siciliae
dative	Siciliae
accusative	Siciliam
ablative	Siciliā
vocative	Sicilia
locative	Siciliae

Derived terms

• Siciliensis

Related terms

• Siculī
• Siculus
• Sīcelis

Descendants

• Catalan: Sicília
• French: Sicile
  • → Persian: سیسیل (sisil)
• Italian: Sicilia
  • → Albanian: Sicila
  • → Japanese: シチリア
  • → Korean: 시칠리아 (sichillia)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: سچلیا
    • Turkish: Sicilya
• Old Galician-Portuguese: Cezilla
• Portuguese: Sicília
• Sicilian: Sicilia
• Spanish: Sicilia
• → Czech: Sicílie
• → Dutch: Sicilie
• → German: Sizilien
• → Hungarian: Szicília
• → Old English: Sicilia
  • Middle English: Sicilie, Sicilye
    • English: Sicily
• → Old Norse: Sikiley
  • Icelandic: Sikiley
• → Polish: Sycylia
• → Russian: Сици́лия (Sicílija), Сици́лія (Sicílija) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
  • → Kazakh: Сицилия (Sisiliä)
  • → Kyrgyz: Сицилия (Sitsiliya)
  • → Uzbek: Sitsiliya

References

• “Sicilia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Sicilia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Sicilia

1. Sicily (The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)

Related terms

• sicilianer
• siciliansk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Sicilia

1. Sicily (The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)

Related terms

• sicilianar
• siciliansk

Old English

Etymology

From Latin Sicilia from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, “Sicel”), the name of the Sicel people.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiˌki.li.ɑ/

Proper noun

Sicilia f

1. Sicily (an island and former kingdom in Europe)
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Sicilia þæt īġland is þrȳsċȳte.

     The island of Sicily is three-sided.

Declension

Indeclinable:

	singular	plural
nominative	Sicilia	—
accusative	Sicilia	—
genitive	Sicilia	—
dative	Sicilia	—

Related terms

• Sicilie
• Sicilisċ

Descendants

• Middle English: Sicilie, Sicilye
  • English: Sicily

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• Sicìlia (quadri-syllabic)

Etymology

From an earlier (now less prevalent) Sicìlia, from Latin Sicilia, from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, “Sicel”), the name of the Sicel people.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siˈʃilja/, /siˈɕilja/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ilja
• Hyphenation: Si‧cì‧lia

Proper noun

Sicilia f

1. Sicily (The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)

Derived terms

• sicilianu

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /siˈθilja/ [siˈθi.lja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /siˈsilja/ [siˈsi.lja]
• Rhymes: -ilja
• Syllabification: Si‧ci‧lia

Proper noun

Sicilia f

1. Sicily (The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)

Related terms

• siciliano